This is the easiest homemade ice cream recipe that you will find. Completely forget about ice cream machines, for this one you will only use a simple hand mixer and just a few ingredients. Perfect to make with the kids and let them personalize their flavors.

Be creative, I love chocolate in all my desserts so, I will give you two flavor options to make ice cream that involves chocolate but are not the classic chocolate ice cream. I will use chocolate from the brand Santa Barbara Chocolate because I work for the company and it is true they only sell high quality chocolate and have a great selection to choose.

I prefer homemade versions, so for the chocolate chunks cookie ice cream I baked the cookies using the Santa Barbara Chocolate chip cookie recipe but instead of chips I used chunks of the Santa Barbara Healthy Chocolate which has no added soy and is coconut palm sugar sweetened.

In a large bowl, preferably a metallic one that is already cold, add a cup of heavy cream, I recommend to use very cold heavy cream; the cold really helps to make it thick faster.

Whisk your cold heavy cream until glossy white and you can make peaks.

Add the condensed milk to the bowl and keep whisking to incorporate both ingredients.

Chop your white chocolate, you need small and medium chunks to give texture to the ice cream.

Now it is time to use your creativity and add any topping you would like.

For the chocolate chunks cookie flavor, I recommend using homemade cookies but any will work.

Take 6 - 8 cookies to crumble all over the ice cream.

Fold the cookie crumbles into the ice cream and then add more crumbles on top.

For the granola and dark chocolate chips, take your cream base with white chocolate chunks, add the granola mixture and fold it into the cream.

Add more granola on top to decorate.

Take both of your homemade ice cream flavors and place them into the fridge for at least 5 hours. Much better if you can let them chill overnight. If you don’t have metallic bowls, use any other you want but you would probably need to let it set in the fridge for one extra hour or so.

How much would you pay for a white chocolate ice cream? $1? Perhaps up to $5?

Well, this year at Russia’s annual MAK’s international airshow, Russian President Vladimir Putin was more than happy to pay 1,000 Rubles ($17.50) for a single white chocolate Plombir ice cream. Russia’s suddenly best-paid ice cream vendor was then handed another 5,000 Ruble note ($87) by none other than the head of Russia’s biggest state owned manufacturing behemoth. President Putin opted for vanilla which is far away the most popular and best selling ice cream flavor world wide.Chocolate ice cream comes next in world popularity, followed by strawberry ice cream at position number three.

What does Plombir taste like? Our chocolatier offers his opinion in this video:

Needless to say, one can agree that each white chocolate vanilla custard Pombir really is of the very highest quality. Did you know, however, that thanks to our very own baking and melting chocolate connoisseurs here at Santa Barbara Chocolate, it is entirely possible to make your very own gourmet white chocolate homemade ice cream right in the comfort of your own kitchen? You can achieve the unique flavor the famous plombir.

California’s very own USDA Organic Fair Trade Chocolate Specialists

For the most part, making mouth watering homemade white chocolate ice cream is simple. All you need to do at home is slowly stir high-quality white chocolate chips into freshly prepared custard until each has melted. Simply adding heavy cream and spices such as vanilla, will then give you delicious ice cream which you just need to refrigerate before transferring to an ice cream maker and freezing for later consumption.

Of course, truly gourmet white chocolate ice cream will always demand that home food enthusiasts and restaurant kitchen pastry chefs use the highest quality melting chocolate. Thankfully, we at Santa Barbara can provide you with just this. This is because our USDA certified organic white chocolate chips are made using only the purest prime pressed rainforest cocoa butter.

Sweetness & Creaminess which Complements a wide Variety of Flavors

While white chocolate in itself can add incredible sweetness and smoothness to ice cream and other desserts, our own white melting chocolate can also complement a wide variety of other flavors.

From white chocolate and raspberry ice cream to dessert counter ready lemon and toffee cheesecakes, our white chocolate chips can help carry different flavors in their own right. At the same time, our white melting chocolate can be used to coat, decorate and add incredible glazes to a wide variety of ice cream dishes and cold confectionery items.

Are you ready to improve the quality of your home desserts and commercial ice cream offerings? If so, don’t settle for less than the most carefully selected white chocolate and other chocolate varieties available right here at Santa Barbara Chocolate. In fact, we promise that once you have tasted the difference, you won’t settle for anything less ever again.